15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

Targum Pseudo-Yonatan identifies her as Shevilanai daughter of Balak. The Shevilanai part is explained well in Sanhedrin 82b, which I eventually intend to cover in another post, but there, it is Shevilanai daughter of Tzur. Tg Yonatan changes Tzur to Balak, king of Moav, based in part on the following interesting reparse of the verse (there are other aspects, such as the fact that it is the daughters of the Moabites who commit harlotry, the aspect of Bilaam's counsel, etc. See this post where I discuss some of it):

רֹאשׁ - the headאֻמּוֹת - revocalize as umat, thus uma de, the nation ofבֵּית-אָב - the house of the father, code for Moavבְּמִדְיָן הוּא - who dwelled in Midian

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parshablog is published by (rabbi) josh waxman (joshwaxman [at] yahoo [dot] com), a grad student in Revel, a grad student in a Phd program in computer science at CUNY. i recently received semicha from RIETS. this blog is devoted to parsha as well as whatever it is i am currently learning.